Great to be back on the road in good weather, we are off to the Dover Gun Battery sites next week on a photographic survey trip and a visit to the Dover Museum for information gathering. We still need to locate the exact positions of both "Winnie" & "Pooh", the twin 14 inch Guns near South Foreland. There was also an experimental gun site called "Bruce" but information on this is sketchy and we are hoping that Dover Museum might help on this. Our trip will be somewhat unique as in the space of just a few days we have arranged to visit both the English Gun sites before traveling across the channel for a further look at their German counterparts; namely Batterie Lindemann at Sangatte.In the planning is a much anticipated visit to the Fan Bay Deep Shelter now run by the National Trust. This is the former deep shelter for the crews of the Fan Bay Battery located on the top of White Cliffs just east of Dover. The battery was armed with three 6 inch guns during the war and adopted the role of a "Flash Battery"; this was a clever ruse and only fired blank or flash charges at German vessels that strayed too close to shore. The idea of this was to force enemy vessels to withdraw further out to sea thereby coming within range of the bigger coastal guns positioned further inland. Just how successful this was is not yet known but will no doubt provide material for further research. More information follows in the coming weeks.Pages reaching conclusion this Spring are: The updated Lunette Battery at Newhaven and The Dieppe Raid..... Steve